Stranded on Sleeve Island

Knitters speak of being stranded on Sleeve Island. As the host of Sal & Al: The Woolslayers explains: Being on Sleeve Island is the feeling you get when you think you’re almost finished with a sweater because you’ve completed the part that goes over the torso. Then you realize that, actually, the sleeves themselves will also require a whole lot more knitting. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Stranded on Sleeve Island”

We were talking earlier about knitting terms and I also love sleeve island. Do you know what sleeve island is?

grant These are all the sleeves that you’ve made for sweaters that will never be finished. It’s also this is the the bag containing these lonesome sleeves. It’s the island of lost sleeves.

Yeah, well it’s sort of like that. its It’s like when you feel like you’re almost finished with a sweater because you have only the sleeves left to do, but because you’ve you’ve already knit.

The part that goes over the torso but that’s an illusion because the sleeves still involve a whole lot of knitting.

And so you feel like you’re stranded on sleeve island.

Oh yeah, I i just imagine that knitters, if if knitters are the people that you want in charge of your like.

Your big undertakings if you’re a government, right?

I think I want knitters in charge of like,

If I were president,

I’d put them in charge of all my major offices.

Because people with patience, right?

Perseverance.

Right, right.

Who get things done, right?

Department of Homeland Security,

There’s a knitter.

State Department, a knitter.

Put knitters everywhere.

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